Live From New York: The Complete, Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live as Told by Its Stars, Writers, and Guests

by Tom Shales

I don’t know why marijuana is still illegal. It has never killed one single individual in all the time we’ve known about it, yet tobacco kills 300,000 each year, alcohol kills 250,000 each year, and they are legal. The laws, the whole thing has been the right wing trying to get back at the civil rights movement: “What can we do to reverse it?

The test of character is how people behave when they’re successful and they have more power. Some people handle it really well.

a house divided is a house that’s more easily controlled.

As Gertrude Stein used to say, “You can’t tell nobody what they don’t know—not even that they don’t know it.”